The Other Future Of Video Game Graphics Looks Just Lovely

We don't know what the future of video games will look like. Nobody knows the future! Not even Epic. But we can speculate, and that lets us speculate that it'll look a lot like this.

This is the latest trailer for Crytek's CryEngine 3, the upcoming, new and improved version of the engine that powers the Crysis series. While previous trailers we've seen look good, this one looks better than good.

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Looks good. Not quite photorealistic, but it's approaching that point. Very nice lighting - they should feel particularly proud about that.

But the thing is - will people use it? The Unreal Engine was widely adopted because it was relatively easy to use and modify. This engine must succeed as a tool just as much as a creator of nice graphics. If it's not easy to use, or if it's too expensive, it'll end up like the CryEngine 2 - in other words, barely used.

I do hope engines like CryEngine 3 are adopted - the Unreal Engine is approaching the end of its life (unless it gets a substantial upgrade).

I would also hazard a guess and predict that genuine, real-time, photorealistic, can't-tell-it's-not-real graphics are only 35-40 years away! See you all then.

The quality of graphics mean nothing if you don't have the animation to back it up. That's what I think a lot of people arn't realizing. Look at the witcher 2. In stills it looks amazing but as soon as he starts walking around and fighting it looks like any other generic action rpg cause the animation isn't the same quality as everything else.

Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair.
This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most unexpected spank possible. We’re talking sneaking up behind each other in the hallway and laying one down that made the earth shake. If I couldn’t read your palm from the imprint, you weren’t doing a good enough job.